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1. The history of fast food 2. Sandwich 3. Hamburger 4. Hot dog 5. Pizza

6. McDonald ' s and KFC

The history of fast food

Fast food is the food that has been cooked before and can be served at any time. It is now very popular in the whole world for it is convenient, economical and fleet. Since the fast food came into China, it has changed people’s life style and habits. Fast food usually refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with low quality preparation and served to the customer in a packaged form for tack-away. It is fashionable for many working couples and school children now to enjoy meals there.

Some trace the modern history of fast food in America to July 7, 1912, with the opening of a fast food restaurant called the Automat in New York. The Automat was a cafeteria with its prepared foods behind small glass windows and coin-operated slots. Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart had already opened the first Horn & Hardart Automat in Philadelphia in 1902, but their “Automat” at Broadway and 13th Street, in New York City, created a sensation. Numerous Automat restaurants were built around the country to deal with the demand. Automats remained extremely popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The company also popularized the notion of “take-out” food, with their slogan “Less work for Mother”. The American company White Castle is generally credited with opening the second fast-food outlet in Wichita, Kansas in 1921, selling hamburgers for five cents from its inception and spawned numerous competitors. It is arguable because most historians and Secondary School textbooks state that A&W was the first fast food restaurant, which opened in 1919.

The hamburger restaurant concept which is most associated with the term \"fast food\" was created by two brothers originally from Nashua, New Hampshire. Richard (Dick) and Maurice (Mac) McDonald opened a barbecue drive-in in 1940 in the city of San Bernardino, California. After discovering that most of their profits came from hamburgers, the brothers closed their restaurant for three months and reopened it in 1948 as a walk-up stand offering a simple menu of hamburgers, French fries, shakes, coffee, and Coca-Cola, served in disposable paper wrapping. As a result, they were able to produce hamburgers and fries constantly, without waiting for customer orders, and could serve them immediately; hamburgers cost 15 cents, about half the price at a typical diner. Their streamlined production method, which they named the \"Speedee Service System\" was influenced by the production line innovations of Henry Ford.

Today the United States has the largest fast food industry in the word, with fast food restaurants being located in over 100 countries.

Sandwich

Sandwiches are a widely popular type of lunch food, typically taken to work

or school, or picnics to be eaten as part of a packed lunch.

At first, Sandwich was merely a small unknown town in the southeast of the England. In the town lived a man named John Montagu. He was totally addicted to the cards regardless of sleeping and eating. His servants could not serve him to have dinner without disturbing him when he was playing cards. One day, his servants mixed the vegetable, eggs and sausage and put them into two pieces of bread as the lunch. Montagu was very glad when ate this “mixture” and named it “sandwich”. Others players also had fun tasting the when they were playing cards. People believe it was from this incident that the quick-food product sandwich had appeared.

Due to its advantages, the sandwich soon became dramatically popular in England and spread into other parts of Europe and North America during the 19th century. By the early 20th century, as bread became a staple of the United States diet, the sandwich became the most popular as a quick meal. There are many kinds of sandwiches, such as Club sandwich, ham and cheese sandwich, tuna fish sandwich, and the way to make them is not too complicated. You can make it in your home if you have extra time.

Hamburger

A hamburger is a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground meat placed in an open, wheat bun or between two slices of bread. Hamburgers are often served with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles or cheese and condiments such as mustard, mayonnaise and ketchup.

Americans learned to make hamburgers from Germans, and the Germans got the idea from Russia. In the thirteenth century the Tartar people from Central Asia moved into Russia and parts of Europe. They fought the Russians and won. They ate something like hamburger meat, but it was raw. This raw meat was beef, goat meat or horse meat. Afterwards they added salt, pepper, a raw egg and then cooked it. Then people could eat it with their hands, like a sandwich. The name Hamburger originated in northwest Germany City Hamburg ( Hamburg ), today's Hamburg is Germany 's busiest port, in the middle of the nineteenth Century when, where people like pounded beefsteak shape, eat like this may be at the time of the large number of German immigrants to America.

Today, there are varieties of hamburgers in McDonald’s and KFC. The McDonald’s fast-food chain sells a sandwich called the Big Mac, one of the world’s top selling hamburgers. Other major fast-food chains, including Burger King, also rely heavily on hamburger sales.

Hot Dog

The hot dog is the United States the most common kind of food. The hot dog is in the open long small bread before eating a sausage, roasted hot. In the United States, there are not only selling hot dogs, general food store has sold, each unit canteens, restaurants or in front of the museum, the park gate, the gate of the school, Boardwalk, and streets and lanes food flow of cars are sold. According to some surveys, the United States of America a year eaten by dogs at least about ten billion. The earliest law Larke Fu sausage is thin pork with salted Bacon fat into paste, then smoked and into, but now the myriads of changes of material not only, also be the most changeful finished size and shape. Materials usually have beef chip, chip, and pig pork tripe. Vienna sausage is a small Frankfurt sausage, is an appetizer. Chubby cooked sausages are made with pork and beef.